BOURKE.] SACRED POWDER. 513 
I once visited it with three other persons and an Indian doctor, who carried with 
him five small bags, each containing some vegetable or mineral substance, all differing 
in color. Atthespring each bag was opened and a small quantity of its contents was 
put into the right hand of each person present. Each visitor, in succession, was then 
required to kneel down by the spring side, to place his closed hand in the water up 
to his elbow, and after a brief interval to open his hand and let fall its contents 
into the spring. The hand was then slowly withdrawn and each one was then per- 
mitted to drink and retire. ! 
Columbus in his fourth voyage touched the mainland, going down 
near Brazil. He says: 
In Cariay and the neighboring country there are great enchanters of a very fearful 
character. They would have given the world to prevent my remaining there an hour. 
When I arrived they sent me immediately two girls very showily dressed; the eld- 
est could not be more than eleven years of age and the other seven, and both exhib- 
ited so much immodesty that more could not be expected from public women. They 
earried concealed about them a magic powder. * 
The expedition of La Salle noticed, among the Indians on the Missis- 
sippi, the Natchez, and others, *‘todos los dias, que se detuvieren en aquel 
Pueblo, ponia la Cacica, encima de la Sepultura de Marle fi. e., a French- 
man who had been drowned], una Cestilla Mena de Espigas de Maiz, 
tostado.” ° 
“He showed me, as a special favor, that which give him his power— 
a bag with some reddish powder in it. He allowed me to handle it and 
smell this mysterious stutf, and pointed out two little dolls or images, 
which, he said, gave him authority over the souls of others; it was for 
their support that flour and water were placed in small birch-rind 
saucers in front.” * 
On page 286, narrative of the Jeannette Arctic expedition, Dr. New- 
comb says: ‘One day, soon after New Year’s, I was out walking with one 
of the Indians. Noticing the new moon, he stopped, faced it, and, 
blowing out his breath, he spoke to it, invoking success in hunting. The 
moon, he said, was ‘Tyunne,’ or ruler of deers, bears, seals, and walrus.” 
The ceremony herein described I have no doubt was analogous in 
every respect to hoddentin-throwing. As the Indians mentioned were 
undoubtedly Tinneh, my surmise seems all the more reasonable. ° 
Tanner relates that among the Ojibwa the two best hunters of the 
band had “each a little leather sack of medicine, consisting of certain 
roots pounded fine and mixed with red paint, to be applied to the little 
images or figures of the animals we wish to kill.” ° 
“In the parish of Walsingham, in Surrey, there is or was a custom 
which seems to refer to the rites performed in honor of Pomona. Early 
in the spring the boys go round to the several orchards in the parish 
! Schooleraft, Ind. Tribes, vol. 4, p. 213. 
* Columbus Letters, in Hakluyt Soc. Works. London, 1847, vol 2, p. 192. 
* Barcia, Ensayo Cronologico, p. 279. 
4 The medicine-men of the Swampy Crees, as described in Bishop of Rupert’s Land's works, quoted 
by Henry Youle Hind, Canadian Exploring Expedition, vol. 1, p. 113. 
5 Personal notes, November 22, 1885, at Baker’s ranch, summit of the Sierra Ancha, Arizona. 
© Tanner's Narrative, p. 174. 
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